First published in 1937, Meyer Levin's novel The Old Bunch recounts
the lives of 19 teenagers-11 boys and 8 girls- from the same
neighborhood on Chicago's West Side. Too young for World War I,
they will later be too old for World War II. But they are not too
young or too old for the Great Depression that begins to unravel
their lives. Their choices are not easy: whether or not to identify
with the suffering of the Jewish people, to seek love rather than
status in marriage, to see African Americans as fellow sufferers.
Harold Strauss called the book "a landmark in the development of
the realistic novel" that "brilliantly succeeds in taking the
reader on a memorable tour of the world in which the old bunch
lived." Levin later became well known for his novel Compulsion, but
here he argues for the growth that comes when we learn to speak for
ourselves. The Old Bunch is a novel pulsing with life, still vital
75 years after its original publication. It is the story of
ordinary neighborhood kids-Jewish boys and girls who, to their
immigrant parents' bewilderment, take the spirit of a great
American city into their hearts. Newly designed and typeset by
Waking Lion Press.
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